MANILA – Half-a-million Filipinos will work as call center agents this year, the Contact Center Association of the Philippines said on Tuesday.
Benedict Hernandez, CCAP president, said the call center industry’s workforce will hit 500,000 this year, adding that it is on track to meet its $8.4 billion revenue contribution to the Philippine economy for 2012.
The country’s gross domestic product grew by 6.1 percent in the first half of the year on the strength of consumer spending and the services sector, which includes the business process outsourcing industry.
Last year, the IT-BPO industry generated more than $11 billion in revenues and employed almost 640,000. According to its medium-term roadmap, the industry projects it would grow revenues to $25 billion and employ 1.3 million by 2016.
The call center segment alone expects to corner $14.7 billion of the BPO industry’s revenue, and 816,000 of the total jobs to be created by 2016. –Darwin G. Amojelar, InterAksyon.com
July 2025
Nutrition Month
“Give us much more than P50 increase
for proper nutrition!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations
against serious violations of
Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
Accept National Unity Government (NUG)
of Myanmar. Reject Military!
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July
3 July – International Day of Cooperatives
3 July – International Plastic Bag Free Day
5 July – World Youth Skills Day
7 July – Global Forgiveness Day
11 July – World Population Day
17 July – World Day for International Justice
28 July – World Nature Conservation Day
30 July – World Day against Trafficking in Persons
Monthly Observances:
Schools Safety Month
Nutrition Month
National Disaster Consciousness Month
Weekly Observances:
Week 2: Cultural Communities Week
Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise
Development Week
Week 3: National Science and
Technology Week
National Disability Prevention and
Rehabilitation Week
July 1-7:
National Culture Consciousness Week
July 13-19:
Philippines Business Week
Week ending last Saturday of July:
Arbor Week
Daily Observances:
First Saturday of July:
International Cooperative Day
in the Philippines
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